Are you rolling the dice on food items in Micro Markets?
With Micro Markets and fresh food items on the menu and more
accessible than ever are you the operator taking a chance by selling food from
coolers with no health safety?
Many operators are using the coolers provided by the
bottlers to display and keep their Micro Market fresh foods in but the problem
with this is that many of those coolers are designed for drink products and not
food. Operators of Micro Markets need to be aware that when fresh or frozen
food is being offered that you need to only use a cooler with a health safety
feature build in so as not to run the risk of someone getting a food item that
has been subjected to higher temperatures then would be needed to maintain a
safe serving environment for such a product.
Getting coolers from the bottlers to use their products
in the market is one option to keep equipment cost to a minimum but they should
only be used for the drink products and even then Milk or any other drink
product that is subject to temperature serving needs should only being offered from
a cooler with a health safety lock out feature.
The health safety feature of the cooler is designed to lock
the door of the cooler should the temperature inside the cooler where the food
is held raises above a set temperature. Let’s say the power goes out over night
at the location where the food is and the cooler warms up above ow let’s say 47
degrees,
and worst yet it is over the weekend because a storm or power outage. Now let’s
say that before the place of the market opens power comes back on but the food
inside the cooler had reached a temperature in excess of what it should have
been and is now not fit to serve, but no one would know it because the cooler
and product may cool back down below 40 degrees when the power came back on.
Not a situation you want to be liable for is it?
